HPC Thought Leaders Headline Intel Community Hub at SC15

With SC15 is just a week away, Intel is inviting attendees to check out their first-ever HPC Community Hub at the Intel Booth #1333 in Austin.

“Looking for the HPC community thought leaders at SC15? You will find many of them at the Intel Community Hub where hourly interactive discussions will feature more than 35 community thought leaders over three-days. Speakers from organizations such as CERN, ANL, LANL, LLNL, TACC, and NERSC, along with updates on the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative, a talk from Nielsen on ‘Bridging the Worlds of HPC and Big Data’, and community discussion groups addressing topics on diversity in HPC, lessons learned from many code modernization efforts, the changing landscape of HPC storage, the latest HPC initiatives in Europe, and the latest views from the Lustre* community.”

In a featured session, Rich Brueckner from insideHPC will moderate a panel discussion on Thursday – 10:15 am entitled: Modern Code: Making the Impossible Possible.

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